Word: strength
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...needed more practice in writing than the college provided for them, he took upon himself the criticism of two extra sets of sophomore themes. From that time to this, Professor Hill has been steadily working to build up an English Department; and although obliged to give most of his strength to Composition, he has found time to conduct one or two courses in Literature. In these he professes not to treat exhaustively English Literature since Shakspere, but merely to guide students in an intelligent study of the lives and the writings of certain masters of the last two centuries. Everybody...
...retain the championship against so magnificent an eleven. We congratulate the spectators upon witnessing so spirited a contest as that of yesterday afternoon. We congratulate the University upon possessing two such powerful scrub elevens. It would not have been difficult, however, for an unprejudiced observer to discern the peculiar strength of each team. "Sand" and science were shown by our eleven, science and "sand" by the other. Both teams showed that they were playing to win. It would have been difficult to gather two more powerful teams upon short notice, than contested yesterday. Notwithstanding the "bumps" (about equally distributed) little...
...whole to be satisfactory and fair to both colleges. It is better to have no championship whatever than to have an unfair one, and make the already strong feeling between the colleges still stronger. It would have been unfair to award the championship to Yale on the strength of the Yale-Princeton game, for the weather, the condition of the ground and the darkness during the last half would not permit the strong points of either team to be brought out. At the same time, to stop the game twenty minutes before the full time had expired took away many...
Yesterday's Globe, commenting upon the Yale eleven, remarks: "It will be seen that the Yale rush line is lighter than for several years past. It is thought that the men will more than make up in strength what they lack in beef, and it is certain that their game will be a "tricky" one. They have some very neat little tricks on hand in passing and dodging with the ball...
...discover whether a year of idleness has destroyed all the foot-ball talent that far back in past ages once existed here. We can all rest assured, at any rate, that the men will all do their best, and that the result will be a criterion of the strength of the two elevens...